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New York City Police Museum/Museo de la Policia de Nueva York
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] ** “Every time we go out, you act like you’ve just gotten off the boat like a refugee,” my wife jokes. But really, I think she’s right. It’s hard to go out in New York City without finding something … Continue reading
Have You Heard of Buika?/Conoces a Buika?
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] ** She lives in Spain, she’s black, young, from a poor neighborhood, born to immigrants, a woman. An absent father. African. Her stage name is Buika. María Concepción Balboa Buika performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center Out of … Continue reading
Bastille Day
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * Fête de la Fédération, or Bastille Day, is the day the French celebrate the start of the French Revolution; it’s held on July 14 each year. This year, New York celebrated Bastille Day on Sunday, July 12, with … Continue reading
June is Puerto Rican Pride Month/Junio: Mes de Orgullo Puertorriqueno
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo * Each June, New York City is host to the Puerto Rican Day Parade, a celebration of grand scale. But there are lots of other events highlighting Puerto Rican culture, too, including a boxing match that pitted Puerto Rico’s welter weight champ, Miguel Cotto, against Joshua … Continue reading
Carta Abierta a los Estados Unidos/Open Letter to America
Text: Emergildo Criollo Quenama Photo: Courtesy of Amazon Watch [Editor’s Note: This week, I’ve been writing about big oil’s human rights and environmental abuses in Latin America and Africa on MatadorChange. Today, we ran the English version of the letter that appears below in Spanish. Written by Emergildo Criollo Quenama, an indigenous leader of the … Continue reading